By looking at my products, one will deduce that I like to mix different woods to make each piece interesting and eye catching.  However, every once in a while I get a hold of a piece of wood that beckons to stand on its own without any further help from me.  Such is the case of my recent lazy susans.

Since I buy my lumber rough as it comes from the saw mill, it is sometimes difficult to see what the wood actually looks like until I run it through my planer.  I had some walnut that I planed down with the intention of using it for another project.  But, when it came out of the planer, I just couldn’t bear to cut it up into small strips.  The creamy sapwood streaks mixed in with light chocolate heartwood was too pretty to use for anything other than a lazy susan.  It worked out so that I could make a 13” and a 16” with matching walnut bases.